Corruption mars timber revenue distribution in Cameroon

Paolo Omar Cerutti, CIFOR researcher comments on his new study that

found lack of transparency and c orruption are reducing the impact of an initiative in Cameroon that channels a portion of national timber levies to rural forest communities. "Cameroon has established a potentially transformative mechanism for sharing tim ber revenues with poor communities but we found that the AF distributions, a ver y promising concept, are not yet realizing their full potential," he said.